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Criterion
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
Paper illustration of a decision table with criteria rows, weighted ratings, and a narrowly leading alternative.
Decision Making
Decision Matrix
Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
Paper illustration for DACI
Decision Making
DACI
Purposedifferent
When expectations between teams stay fuzzy, it describes how a team can be reached, used, and held accountable. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Team API document.When several options collide with several criteria, comparison quickly becomes subjective. A Decision Matrix makes the trade-off visible and brings weighting, criteria, and options into a shared logic.With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects.In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend45-90 min45-120 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus Stakeholder2-82-82-10
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Team API DocumentDecision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected OptionTrade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted DownsidesDACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs
TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions
DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment
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